Donald Trump was kicked off Facebook following the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. However, the corporate restored his account in early 2023.
Days after Donald Trump gained the US presidential elections, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Florida. The former president was as soon as banned from the social community following the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol. However, Meta restored his account in early 2023. During the 2024 marketing campaign, Zuckerberg didn’t endorse a candidate for president.
A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that Zuckerberg and Trump met on Wednesday, saying he was invited for dinner with the president-elect and different members of his group to speak in regards to the incoming administration.
The tech CEO has been in search of to alter his firm’s notion on the suitable following a rocky relationship with Trump. Stephen Miller, who has been appointed deputy chief of workers for Trump’s second time period, stated Zuckerberg, like different enterprise leaders, desires to help Trump’s financial plans.
“Mark, obviously, he has his own interest, and he has his own company and he has his own agenda,” Miller stated in an interview on Fox News in regards to the assembly. “But he’s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump’s leadership.”
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Earlier this yr, Zuckerberg praised Trump’s response to his first assassination try, calling it “badass.” The Meta CEO additionally complained that senior Biden administration officers pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content material throughout the pandemic.
Still, Trump in latest months had continued to assault Zuckerberg publicly. In July, he posted a message on his personal social community Truth Social threatening to ship election fraudsters to jail partially by citing a nickname he used for the Meta CEO. “ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful!” Trump wrote.
(With inputs from AP/PTI)
